Barbarian Invasion

**SwordsMaster** · 05-13-2005, 16:36

Originally Posted by eadingas

You mean Constantine the Great? ;)

No, Keanu Reeve´s film Constantine.

**eadingas** · 05-13-2005, 16:36

I realized that... tried a bad pun there...

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 05-13-2005, 16:40

I think I will need a better computer to take full advantage of this. Is it just me or do some of the skins (like the germanic? one - the second pic) look really nice?

And I can see the need for an EB mod of this already.

**eadingas** · 05-13-2005, 16:46

Don't you remember preview screens for RTW? They were heavens better than anything you could produce in actual RTW on even best machine. I suspect the same here... notice how they use everywhere flaming arrows, flaming missiles, etc. all to inspire a sense of awe and divert our attention from things like those weird peasants with pitchforks in the siege picture...

**jerby** · 05-13-2005, 17:31

yeah, just lik those damn revieuwists:"the great engine of RTW can pump out a great 100,000 units" or "this is a deep strategic game that is not fo rthe simple minded"

i think everybody who is becoming a paid revieuwer should first take an IQ test...

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 05-13-2005, 18:14

After seeing those screenshots, I have even less of a desire to look into the expansion pack any more. If that's what is being used to try and lure interest, I hope (for their sake) that they don't have their hopes up too high. Much more interesting stuff (to me) gets posted on this board every weekend. Granted, I'm not as interested in late antiquity, but the only way I'd even think about the xp now is if it opened up stupid things like 64 complex building limits and unit model limits and faction limits and actually made negative bonuses possible and fixed AI problems and .......

**jerby** · 05-13-2005, 19:41

stop it, I was just getting hope for EB...:'D

**cunctator** · 05-21-2005, 16:26

At least the expansion will (hopefully) rise some of the hardcoded limits. Everything else would be very poor for CA. So ten new factions to use and many interesting features like nomadic factions.

The ballista vehicles (carro ballista) are not fictional, also i don`t know if the late empire used them. The real ones were not driven by horses and look less than chariots. But i think that can be modded as well as their behaviour. (if they behave like chariots, plowing through everything)

Pictures from the trajans column: http://www.stoa.org/trajan/

**The Wizard** · 05-22-2005, 00:50

I can't hope for historical accuracies, but by God, do I ever hope that them fellas at CA improve the AI.

I mean, replace the damn MTW AI with an AI that can actually cope with the new challenges posed by the new 360° movement map! And for heaven's sake, give us back the MTW battle AI!

And while I'm still hoping, I might as well add that I certainly wouldn't mind better balancing, and better difficulty levels. I mean, attacking a phalanx (!) from all sides and seeing it rout all my units in turn in the Very Hard difficulty is just that little bit too much for my temper too handle. Just that little bit.

~Wiz

**jerby** · 05-22-2005, 10:03

yeah, the difficulty sucks.
at easy you ahve a bonus versus your enemies. at medium your enemys have a bonus over you (?) and the bonus only expands. I want new tactis, formations and reactions. I want an ai that refuses to break formation!